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BUDAPEST, Hungary — On the day he equalled Brazilian great Ayrton Senna’s feat of 41 race wins with a brilliant drive at Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel’s thoughts went to Jules Bianchi and his family.

Hyundai Auto Canada is on the hunt for intrepid customers in Vancouver who want to give its mass-produced, hydrogen fuel cell vehicle — the first one in the world — more than a whirl. It must also be hoping that, after years of one fuel cell disappointment after another, the market here is ready for a revival of the concept.

Albert Fok and Jordan Eng have had reasons to shake their heads in Vancouver’s evolving Chinatown, but they remain shocked how the winner of August’s Golden Dumpling Derby could digest 37 dumplings in two minutes. “And then he ate off everyone else’s plate. I have video to prove it,” laughed Eng, the vice-president of Chinatown’s Business Improvement Association, recalling the second annual eating contest.

It is hard to believe, but this new 2014 Range Rover is only the fourth generation of this iconic brand. The first was introduced in 1970 as the top-of -ange Land Rover model, kind of like the country squire of SUVs.

Lorne and Faye Embree’s 1940 Ford Standard wood-bodied station wagon had a hard life. The first owner was Fred Westwick of Westwick Sawmills in the north central B.C. community of Williams Lake. The Ford was used as a crummy transporting loggers to and from their cut blocks right up until the late-1960s. Completely worn out and falling apart, the old Ford woody wagon was pushed over a bank and left to rot.

In 1954, Duane Steck bought a new Chevrolet sport coupe and set out to create the perfect custom car. The young Los Angeles commercial artist had a keen eye for design and the car was reshaped in the driveway of his family home in suburban Bellflower.

A crooked car salesman, fraud and 242 missing vehicles — the 2005 demise of Vancouver’s Totem Ford dealership turned into a nightmare for the two financial institutions who bankrolled it. In a lengthy 285-paragraph decision released Thursday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Elliott Myers relates a seedy, stereotypical used-car story that he thought could be a Hollywood script.

A new price war has erupted in the automotive industry. Well, sort of. While affordability is at an all-time high across a variety of makes and models, interestingly us experts find ourselves focused yet again on the smallest segment of the market: electric vehicles.

Ruth Adair and Barry Burns plan to have 250 people at their South Surrey home for a deluxe baron of beef buffet on Saturday afternoon. The only thing they ask is that their guests bring their classic or special-interest car for display on the streets of their neighbourhood and their chequebook or cash in their pockets for the eighth time they have organized the 30th Avenue Car Show.

Over the last couple of years there has been a surge in the number of hybrid, plug-in hybrid and full electric cars coming to market. One would be forgiven for thinking that there is a huge demand for these products, given the fact that almost every manufacturer has one or more electrified vehicle in their stable.

Kudos to the B.C. Egg Marketing Board for labelling Wednesday's made-for-media event in down-town Vancouver - the unveiling of a life-size fire truck made from, of all odd things, egg cartons - as an exercise in "eggonomics."